Wreck totals deputy’s vehicle
Everyone escaped serious injury Friday night when a Warren County sheriff’s deputy collided with another vehicle on Highway 55 in neighboring Coffee County, totaling both vehicles.
The deputy, Stewart Caldwell, was working on the case of a woman who had been set afire earlier in the day at Measels Estates and was returning from an evidence-gathering mission in Coffee County when the crash occurred.
“Preliminary indications are that a Jeep pulled from a side road into Stewart’s path as he was traveling down the highway toward Warren County,” Sheriff Jackie Matheny said, noting the highway patrol is expected to submit its final report this week. The names of the people in the other vehicle were not available.
The crash happened around 9 p.m. Friday on Highway 55 near Summitville as Caldwell was returning to Warren County in a Warren County Sheriff’s Department Ford Explorer.
“To look at it you’d think someone was hurt bad, but everyone was real lucky,” Matheny said after traveling to Summitville to check out the crash site first-hand. “One of the occupants in the other vehicle was apparently ejected from his vehicle but suffered only a cut on his head and had to be talked into going to the hospital.”